Welcome to Ignite – a program designed exclusively for you, technical professionals, to help support you with career, practical skills and business development resources all in one place - the search is over! The Ignite Program consists of three series: Ignite Your Coding, Ignite Your Career and Ignite Your Venture.All three series focus on bringing industry experts from the Canadian Information Communications and Technology (ICT) ecosystem to share their expertise, best practices, experiences, and most importantly answer your questions. Review the series details below. Get involved and share your ideas on what you’d like to see here in the future.
Welcome to the Ignite Your Coding series – Finding time to stay current with your developer skills is a challenge in today’s technological environment. Ignite Your Coding is a webcast series designed to help you manage change by getting your practical skills up to speed. This series is all about supporting you and your team by getting key industry experts to share their expertise, learning processes and best practices with you across a multitude of disciplines.
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Jean Paoli is All About Web Interoperability
Jean Paoli - March 24, 2011
Jon Snook Takes CSS3 Seriously
Jonathan Snook - March 17, 2011
Kent Alstad Makes JavaScript Perform
Kent Alstad - March 10, 2011
Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML5
Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp - March 3, 2011
Pragmatic Programming, Thinking and Learning
Andy Hunt - March 4, 2010
Composable Applications FTW
Glenn Block - March 11, 2010
Essence versus Ceremony
Jeremy Miller - March 18, 2010
Agile Techniques for Paying Back Technical Debt
David Laribee - March 25, 2010
Scalability and Performance for All
Richard Campbell - April 8, 2010
State of the .NET Developer Nation
Scott Hanselman - April 15, 2010
Horrors, Overflows and Fake Plastic Rock
Jeff Atwood - April 22, 2010
A chat with “Uncle Bob” Martin
“Uncle Bob” Martin - April 29, 2010
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Welcome to the Ignite Your Career series. Aside from staying up-to-date with your technical skills, it is important to continue to grow your business skills. The goal of the Ignite your Career series is to support your career development by getting your questions answered by a panel of experts in the Canadian ICT industry. It doesn't matter if you manage infrastructure, work in development, or manage teams of IT resources - this is your opportunity to connect! The Ignite Your Career LIVE Webcast series occurs twice a year in the spring and fall. It’s hosted by Rick Claus, Senior IT Advisor at Microsoft Canada and Shane Schick, Editor in Chief, IT World Canada.
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2. Internal or External Training
3. Selling yourself- Are you using all your resources?
4. Developing your leadership qualities
5. Podcast-CareerBytes for the Regular IT Guy
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Archived Ignite Your Career webcasts
Recommended Career Resources for technical professionals
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Welcome To Ignite Your Venture. In this Series of Ignite Your Venture, we are partnering with Intrepid Equity to bring you insights & discussions from industry experts. Whether you are a new start up, established business or a business simply looking at new areas of opportunity – we will be chatting about what it means to become successful from start to end. Hosted by Angie Lim, Channel Audience Manager for Microsoft Canada Partner Network.
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New Business series now available on-demand!
1. Bring Your Ideas to Life with a Venture Capitalist
2. Finding the Right People to Make the Right Team with Randy Street
3. Helping to Increase Profits with Focus on Channel Engagement & Helping to Accelerate Your Sales
4. Business Lead Generation that Really Delivers
Additional Resources
For software start-ups, check out BizSpark
For web developers and designers, check out WebsiteSpark
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